San Francisco!

Welcome to California!

Truth be told, I don't think I'm going to have time to see the city apart from the view from my hotel window. It's 6:30 p.m. and the sun is quickly sinking. Adventuring out would mean doing so solo and I don't think I'm in the best area for that. Not far from the Wharf, but not close enough to hoof it - I'm near Grace Cathedral but ... well, you know.

The flight was pretty unremarkable. I laugh at 41/2 hours now that I've spent so much time on the grueling ATL-CPH flight of misery and back. Though I'm pretty miffed with Delta. I booked my flight last week and requested seat 26F - window seat in an exit row. I'm tall, my legs are long and I like to lean on the window when snoozing. Plus, I'm quite capable of opening the exit door in an emergency.

Well, I shlubbed to my seat only find a couple in seats 26F and E - and they had the tickets to match. Delta had "upgraded" me between when I checked in from home at 11 a.m. and when I boarded the flight around 2 p.m. Sigh. Only the upgrade was a seat at the front with a little leg room but no place to stow my bag. I don't care for those seats because I like to have my belongings close at hand. Sure enough, it was a late and choppy start and the seatbelt light didn't turn off for 45 minutes, ensuring I couldn't take my pills at the right time and generally pissing me the hell off. Delta didn't really upgrade me, they just put me in a seat I would NEVER have chosen for myself because I like to keep my bag close. Gee, thanks.

Then I find out that while I'm finally on a Delta plane with individual TVs and video games and movies, etc., Delta requires you to pay $5 for games, $2 for headphones, $$$ for movies, etc. It was a real rip off and felt exceedingly cheap and pathetic. In short, Delta sucks.

But I'm so very close to Platinum - in fact, I should already be Platinum this moment but apparently Delta's site doesn't update very quickly... because they suck.

Um, yeah, back to S.F. - I have lovely memories of the city from childhood and wish I had the time to really look around. This is a Hello Kitty mecca, too. But I'm tired after going to the Sound of Urchin show at the Masquerade last night. And traveling. And the awful debacle with airport parking at ATL!

I left the house at 11:30 a.m. for a 2:10 flight. Half hour drive to the airport and because this is a short trip I was going to splurge for the fancy covered parking. Well, the lot was full. As was the economy lot South. And the economy lot North. And all parking everywhere. How can this be one of the biggest and busiest airports in the world and they can't accomodate parking??? I finally got into the Park&Ride lot about 1 p.m. - and it was more than half an hour in line to get in. Ridiculous. Luckily, the shuttles were lined up AT the row being filled so there wasn't much of a time delay on getting to the terminal. But I was sweating bullets this morning, convinced I was going to miss another flight. Eeeee! But I learned a good travel lesson - Wednesday is the busiest travel day at ATL. One to grow on.

So, it looks like instead of checking out Pier 39, I'll be ironing, doing some work catchup and maybe watching a little TV. Superstar!